Alternate:
Pieter Franciscus Winne
Birth: 1609 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Holland
Death: ABT 1693 in Bethlehem, Albany County, NY
Baptism: 14 Apr 1609 St. Bavon's Cathedral, Ghen, Netherlands139

Pieter Winne was born Mar 1609 in Ghent, Flanders, (now Belgium). He was baptized 14 Apr 1609 at St. Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. His parents were Franciscus WINNE and Anna [__?__]. He married Aechie Jans Van SCHAICK in 1635 in Leeswarden, Vrieslandt, Netherlands.   After Aechie died, he married in Tannatje Adams in 1658 in Albany, NY.  Pieter died in Bethlehem, Albany County, NY sometime after 4 May 1690, when he witnessed the baptism of his grandson by his son Frans, and before 7 May 1693, when Tanneke remarried.144

Peter first immigrated from Holland to Curaçao and lived their from at least 1643 when Peter II was born to 1652 when he arrived in Fort Orange.144

Curaçao was occupied by the Dutch in 1634. The Dutch West India Company founded the capital of Willemstad on the banks of an inlet called the ‘Schottegat’.  Curaçao had been ignored by colonists because it lacked many things that colonists were interested in, such as gold deposits.  However, the natural harbour of Willemstad proved quickly to be an ideal spot for trade. Commerce and shipping — and piracy—became Curaçao’s most important economic activities.144

Pieter Winne was the founder and patriarch of the Winne family of early Albany. He was born in Ghent, Flanders (Belgium) in 1609, the son of Franciscus and Anna Winne.  He was 49 years old when he married Frieslander Tannetje Adams who was only 20 at time.  They had 12 children, so Pieter had a very active second half of life.

He brought that family to New Netherland during the 1650s where he became a tenant in the colony of Rensselaerswyck. His farm was in the southwestern part of the manor called Bethlehem where he also operated a sawmill . By the end of the decade he also was established in Beverwyck – where he owned a house and became a prominent fur trader.

Winne’s house and mill were situated on a creek named Vloman Kill, or Fleming’s Creek, in recognition of his Flemish origins. The Winne family continued to reside along the creek through the end of the nineteenth century.

For nearly 200 years, the Winnes were tenants of the Van Rensselaer family, the great patroons, or manorial lords, of the Albany region. Their one-million-acre estate was known as Rensselaerswyck. The Van Rensselaers lived in a grand manor house built 1765–69 in the English Georgian style. The Winnes’ rent varied over time. Until 1764, they ceded 10 percent of their annual produce to the Van Rensselaers. After that, they were required to pay a fixed rate of ten bushels of wheat per year. When Peter Winne first settled in Rensselaerswyck, his rent went to Jan Baptist Van Rensselaer.

Subsequently, Winne gravitated more to the countryside where he held substantial lands. For several decades, farmer and mill operator Pieter Winne was one of the principal personages of Bethlehem. He was also active in the Albany Dutch church – serving in a number of capacities.

He wrote a will in 1677 and another one in July 1684. In the second will, he characterized himself as a magistrate living in Bethlehem and that he was “sick in body but of sound memory and understanding.” It named his wife as sole heir during her widowhood. It also identified their twelve living children – whom he made his secondary heirs.
Founder of a large regional family, Pieter Winne lived into his eighties. He died during the early 1690s and his widow re-married in 1693. His descendants were mainline residents of colonial Albany and prominent throughout the region.

Pieter Winne (Winnen) is also referred to as Pieter de Vlamingh (the Fleming) and Vloman Kill in Albany is named for him.

6 July 1684 – Peter made a will in which he stated that he was born in Gent in Flanderen. This will replaced one he had made on 1 June 1677. His final will was dated 31 December 1688.   Witnesses: Marten Gerritse and Cornelis van Dyck. Printed in Early Records of Albany, volume 4, 127-29. Letters of administration were granted to Casper Leendertse Conyn and Livinius Winne on February 22, 1696.